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==Gallery== <gallery mode="packed" style="font-size:88%; line-height:130%"> File:Western honey bee on a honeycomb.jpg|A Western honey bee on a honeycomb File:Honeycomb-Process.png|The bees begin to build the comb from the top of each section. When a cell is filled with honey, the bees seal it with wax. File:BDHoneycomb.JPG|Natural honeycombs on a building File:Bienenwabe mit Eiern und Brut 5.jpg|Honeycomb with eggs and [[larva]]e File:Apis florea nest closeup2.jpg|Closeup of an abandoned ''[[Apis florea]]'' nest in [[Thailand]]. The hexagonal grid of wax cells on either side of the nest are slightly offset from each other. This increases the strength of the comb and reduces the amount of wax required to produce a robust structure. File:Honey comb.jpg|Honeycomb File:Natural Beehive and Honeycombs.jpg|The lower part of the natural comb of ''[[Apis dorsata]]'' has a number of unoccupied cells File:Bienenwabe Ausbau der Mittelwand 79a.jpg|"Artificial honeycomb" foundation plate in which bees have already completed some cells File:TransitionalHoney.jpg|Honeycomb section containing transition from worker to drone (larger) cells – here bees make irregular and five-cornered cells (marked with red dots) File:Western Honey Bees and Honeycomb.JPG|Western honeybees and honeycomb File:Machine-made honeycombs.jpg|Honeycombs made by machine with beeswax and with the whole structure of the hexagonal cell already built File:Coat of Arms of Viļāni.svg|Coat of arms of the town of [[Viļāni]], Latvia File:Honeycomb 091f.jpg|[[Langstroth hive|Langstroth]] frame of honeycomb with [[honey]] in the upper left and [[pollen]] in most of the rest of the cells File:Waxing Honeycombs on the grill.jpg|Cooking a [[grilled honeycomb]] with larvae at the Oudong Market in [[Cambodia]] </gallery>
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